Wide band e-shape wearable antenna for wireless body area network

Author

Zhang, H.S. ; Xiao, K. ; Qiu, Lei ; Chai, S.L.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2014

fDate

24-26 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we present a wideband planar e-shape textile antenna and study its performance numerically and experimentally. The textile material and the radiation patch shape provide the antenna a wide working band (2.25ghz-2.75ghz). A digital human model is established to numerically analyze the affect of human body on antenna. Experiments are carried out to study the performance of antenna on human body, The simulated and measured results in free space and on human chest show good agreement with each other. the wideband planar e-shape textile antenna is suitable for body-centric wireless communications with high quality.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; body area networks; wearable antennas; body centric wireless communications; digital human model; frequency 2.25 GHz to 2.75 GHz; radiation patch shape; textile material; wide band e-shape wearable antenna; wideband planar e-shape textile antenna; wireless body area network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Finite difference methods; Textiles; Time-domain analysis; Wideband; body-centric wireless communications; wearable antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Symposium (IWS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

X´ian

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEE-IWS.2014.6864195

Filename

6864195